My students and I have just returned from the annual meeting of the International Association for the Study of Dreams in Berkeley, California. We were joined in one of our sessions by a Chinese collaborator, Ming-Ni Lee who is from Tiawan and is pictured below. Next to her is Alison Ditner, me, Arielle Boyes, and Sarah Gahr. Arielle presented her honors thesis and Alison and Sarah presented posters on projects that they were involved with in the past year.

Sarah Gahr and Ali Ditner at the 2014 IASD poster session where they presented.

Research assistants from the 2013-1014 academic year.

Sarah Gahr and Arielle Boyes presented their work on the Hall and VandeCastle dream coding for the social media study.

Long time serious gamer, Keyfer has been working in our lab on several grants coding dreams since 2011.

My students and I have just returned from the annual meeting of the International Association for the Study of Dreams in Berkeley, California. We were joined in one of our sessions by a Chinese collaborator, Ming-Ni Lee who is from Tiawan and is pictured below. Next to her is Alison Ditner, me, Arielle Boyes, and Sarah Gahr. Arielle presented her honors thesis and Alison and Sarah presented posters on projects that they were involved with in the past year.

Jayne Gackenbach and Matt Rosie at his 2010 MacEwan Graduation

Arielle joined our lab in 2012 as a third year honors student. She has been involved in our inquiry into social media and dreams.

Sarah Gahr and Ali Ditner at the 2014 IASD poster session where they presented.

Dan did his honor’s thesis on the relationship between gaming and meditation.

Our video game research laboratory began in earnest in the middle of the last decade. Various students have helped and done their undergraduate honours thesis with us. These students and their work are listed below:

Kuruvilla, B. (2008). The Effects of Video Game Play on Threat Simulation Dreams. (Thesis supervisor).

Independent Study Students and Research Assistants Past and Present.

John Bown

Mycah Darlington

Alison Ditner

Mary-Lynne Ferguson

Carson Flockhart

Sarah Gahr

M. Kuchinsky

Gabriel A. Mandel

Keyfer Mathewson

Ian Matty

Kimberly Masliuk

Ashley Samaha

Tyler Sample

Misty Tomashewsky

Heather Von Stackelberg

Alexis ZederaykoCurrent Projects in the lab in addition to the honors thesis above:

1. Video Game Play as Nightmare Protection: First Responders
2. The Association Between Video Game Play, Attention and Change Detection
3. Presence as Measured by Biofeedback Game Controller
4. GEFT and Gaming
5. Social Media Use vs Gaming and Dream Content

6. A cross-cultural analysis of video game play and social media effects on dreams: China and Canada